Plate
Plate with the central medallion showing the personification of Africa. In the center is a bust of a young woman wearing an elephant hide cap, holding an asp in her right hand and a cornucopia of plenty full of fruit in her left. The symbolism of the objects around the woman and her facial features strongly suggest that it is a posthumous portrait of Cleopatra Selene II, Queen of Mauretania, wife of Juba II, and daughter of Cleopatra VII of Egypt, and most likely commissioned by Ptolemy of Mauretania, son of Cleopatra Selene II (shortly after her death in 6/5 BC).
Quantity
1
Container
Vaulted box
Material
Silver
Hoard
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